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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

[introduction]

In The Year 1882 the Government opened a block of bush land on deferred payment on the southern side of the Waimatuku Bush, and this district has since been known as Otakau. It lies to the west of Wallacetown, and to the south of Waianiwa, from which it is about four miles distant, and extends towards the Waimatuku beach. The settlers are making considerable progress in winning their holdings from their original condition, and dairy farming is successfully carried on. Otakau has a public school, but no church, but the district's requirements in this respect are met in the surrounding settlements. The district is in the Awarua electorate, and in the Wallacetown riding of the county of Southland. Its population was not separately counted at the census of 1901, but Waimatuku Bush, of which it is part, had 150 inhabitants.